Wednesday, 10 August 2011

NCR Muddy Soup

Last week upon returning from our trip to Orange I made ugly soup. Then I was sorting through photos and found it must have been inspired by our visit en route to the National War Memorial in Canberra. It looked just like the mud on the Western Front in World War I. I swithered about posting it but when I saw that this month's theme for Jacqueline and Lisa's No Croutons Required event is lentils, I thought this would fit the bill.

It is a soup based on one I posted years ago (gulp! have I been blogging so long!). Yet I feel this version needs some work but it tasted good enough to post it as a work in progress. It was a bit thick and needed more water to thin it out a bit. I added some brussel sprouts at the end but in future would use more kale or cabbage. As it was I just had some baby kale leaves from the garden and brussel sprouts to use up. But I was worried they would spoil the flavour if too overcooked and put them in at the end when we were starving and it took another 15 minutes. If in this situation in future I would just steam them and serve them on the side. I was also a bit unsure if the split peas were cooked enough as a few were toothsome.

Despite these reservations the soup was lovely and just what we needed after our long drive. Lentils and split peas made it very comforting with well seasoned waterlogged sausage (which maybe could be crisper) but I am not sure what turned it so muddy brown. You can see a muddy picture from the war memorial above. It was quite confronting to try and explain to Sylvia about the images in the museum. At this one I explained this man was missing his friends and she replied that he needed a cuggle from two friends. Awww!

5 comments:

The combination of split peas and lentils in your soup sounds very hearty and delicious. I usually have one or the other and haven't combined them before. The first thing I did when I got back from our trip was to put a pot of soup on the stove too!

Thanks for dropping by. I love hearing from you. Please share your thoughts and questions. Annoyingly the spammers are bombarding me so I have turned on the pesky captcha code (refresh to find an easy one if you don't like the first one)

Search this Blog

About Me

Recipes and reflections in which our vegetarian heroine dreams of being tall and graceful as a giraffe; being a goddess in the kitchen; and being gladdened by green gadgets, green food and green politics because green is the colour of hope. See About Me for more info.